just one more post before bookclub.....

ok, so mm is HOME ALONE....and that explains the plethora of posts.....i could vacumn, do laundry....clean out the gutters.....but as it is raining......i am preparing for bookclub by looking over a book i actually read 6-7 months ago.....the flanders panel by arturo perez-reverte.....at the get-go.....you really must take notice of a book by a hyphenated author.......i must include this insight tonight with all of my non-hyphenated friends........i also enjoyed the madrid backdrop......i enjoyed madrid vicariously in this novel more than i did when i visited last year.......but then i was tired/cold/jet-lagged.....the story of my travel life.......anyway....this book reminded me of emberto eco's the name of the rose....a historical thriller....with many twists.......requiring reat attention to detail.....especially to chess.....and this is where i was lost in translation.......i only know enough about chess to lose dramatically........and this book convinced me that i probably have adult add....because when the chess game diagrams popped up....i could no longer focus on the story at hand.........it is the same when i try to read war and peace.. or the brothers karamozov.......and the russian names come up....i cannot focus....and so my mind wanders....and i am soon writing shopping lists in my head rather than reading the book.........thus, i have never finished a russian novel......or a polish,czech,indian......you name it......i cannot get through these without my mind wandering.....and i always put them down....and never put them back up...........on theother hand i managed to read the davinci code in less than 24 hours.......and though i have reread it to make sure it caught the drift correctly.....i think that i have a phobia to unfamiliar words...........i must be careful at bookclub, because the person who chose this book has a bad heart..........